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Bellator 171 Results: Chidi Njokuani Defeats Melvin Guillard in Landslide

Last night (Jan. 27) Bellator 171 was held inside the Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane, Kansas. The main event featured a catchweight bout at 179 pounds. Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lightweight Melvin Guillard took on former Tachi Palace Fights welterweight title holder Chidi Njokuani. Njokuani’s more effective stand-up and ground control were the key factors […]

Josh Thompson vs. Patricky Pitbull Announced As Co-Main Event for Bellator 172

Bellator 172: Fedor vs. Mitrione is expected to make a big splash this February, and the card just got a little bit bigger. Appearing in the co-main event slot prior to the return of Fedor Emelianenko against Matt Mitrione will be a key lightweight showdown between Josh “The Punk” Thompson and Bellator stalwart Patricky Freire. […]

Bellator 171 Live Results

It’s once again fight day here at LowKickMMA, and the talent on display tonight (Friday, January 27th, 2017) will come in the form of Bellator 171. Headlining the card are Melvin Guillard and Chidi Njokuani, but there’s a whole bunch of great fights also taking place on the rest of the main card. Melvin Guillard

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Melvin Guillard vs. Chidi Njokuani meet in a catchweight bout in the main event of Bellator 171.

David Rickels vs. Aaron Derrow meet in a lightweight bout in the co-main event of Bellator 171.

Jessica Middleton vs. Alice Yauger was next in a flyweight bout.

Opening the main card on Spike TV was A.J. McKee vs. Brandon Phillips in a featherweight bout. In round 1, big side kick by McKee opens up the round. McKee was throwing a lot of kicks and had his range down. Phillips was kicked in the groin with a minute to go. Phillips started countering and landed a big right hand with 30-seconds to go in the round. In round 2, there was not much happening in this round. They paced nicely but neither man was landing any big shots. Phillips is catching McKee when he lunges in but not landing enough strikes to dominate the round. McKee switched levels and went for a takedown but it was stuffed. In round 3, McKee took him down the middle of the round and got guard but Phillips scrambled right back to his feet, which popped the crowd. Philips punched him in the cup. McKee picked up the decision win.

Here are the results for this event:

MAIN CARD (9:00 PM EST on Spike TV)

Catchweight: Melvin Guillard vs. Chidi Njokuani

Lightweight: David Rickels vs. Aaron Derrow

Female Flyweight: Jessica Middleton vs. Alice Yauger

Featherweight: AJ McKee def. Brandon Phillips via Unanimous Decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)

PRELIMINARY CARD (7:00 PM EST)

Jordan Young def. Chris Harris via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-27, 30-27)
Justin Overton def. Gaston Reyno via submission (rear-naked choke) (Round 2, 0:34)
Jarod Trice def. Kevin Woltkamp via knockout (Round 2, 3:17)
Tyrell Fortune def. Will Johnson via technical knockout (Round 2, 4:27)
Bruna Ellen def. Carmella James via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)

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Jarod Trice Says He’s ‘Comfortable’ Fighting Kevin Woltkamp at Heavyweight

Tonight (Jan. 27), Jarod Trice will compete in his second professional mixed martial arts (MMA) bout. Instead of fighting at light heavyweight, this time Trice is giving the heavyweight division a go. Sharing the Bellator cage with him will be Kevin Woltkamp. While fighting at heavyweight is new to Trice, he’s used to competing at […]

Chael Sonnen On Tito Ortiz Fight: There’s Not An Excuse

Chael Sonnen made his return to mixed martial arts in the main event of last Saturday’s (Jan 21, 2017) Bellator 170 from Inglewood, California, but it didn’t play out in his favor, as he was submitted by Tito Ortiz in the first round. To make matters worse, some have criticized the loss, saying that the

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To make matters worse, some have criticized the loss, saying that the choke wasn’t completely locked in. Sonnen, however, recently told MMAFighting.com that it was indeed a choke, although he admitted it was embarrassing:

“It was a choke. It was an oxygen issue, not a pain issue,” Sonnen said on The Luke Thomas Show. “And somebody had asked me that … after the fight, and I had no idea what she was talking about. ‘Didn’t you see it? I got put in a rear-naked choke.’ And then I got home and people were saying that it didn’t look like it was on. I don’t even know how to respond to that.

“All I can tell you is I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t respect it went on. I thought we were going to get into scramble and I was going to come on top, and I was stuck. It’s really hard to give up your back, ever. You give up your back in the first round before you have that sweat going, man, it’s just a tough spot. And it’s embarrassing, it’s all those different things. But to answer your question head-on, yeah, it was a choke, it was not a crank.”

In addition to fans criticizing the legitimacy of the choke, some have also claimed that the fight was fixed. Sonnen, however, disputed these accusations, also saying that he had no excuses for his performance:

“I can tell you, if you’re ever in a contest and somebody thinks that you threw it, like some of my fans in this case, like ‘he wasn’t trying’ — no, the hard reality is I got put in a choke,” Sonnen said. “I was trying and he squeezed the choke better than I defended it, and as much as I appreciate you guys trying to give me an excuse, man, I’m a guy who hates them.

“It’s fun to be a good winner, it’s hard to be a good loser, but it’s the process. It’s protocol and procedure, and if you get beat, you’ve got to tap and surrender, man. You’ve got to own it forever. You can’t go back and say, ‘well, I didn’t try.’ So as much as I appreciate supporters offering an excuse for me, there’s not an excuse, man. I got put in a choke and I had to tap.”

What do you make of Sonnen’s comments?

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Chael Sonnen Responds to Fight Fixing Accusations: ‘The Hard Reality is I got Put in a Choke”

Bellator 170 is in the books. The main event was a light heavyweight bout between Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz and Chael Sonnen. “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” ended his mixed martial arts (MMA) career with a first-round submission win. While it was a storybook ending for Ortiz, the bout didn’t […]